Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . IBLE SOCIETY. The Mount-Vernon Clnirch, in Ashburtoii Place, waserected in 1843. The dinutisious of the building areseventy-five feet by ^evcn, containing a hundi-L-dand thirty-two pews on the lower floor, and fifty in thegallery, in which twelve hundred and seventy personsmay be comfortably seated. Tiie basement story con-tains, besides the several committee-rooms, a commodi-ous chapel, sixty-eight feet long by forty-eight feet wide,and fifteen feet high, which accommodates six hundredpersons with seats. The Rev. Edward N. Kirk
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . IBLE SOCIETY. The Mount-Vernon Clnirch, in Ashburtoii Place, waserected in 1843. The dinutisious of the building areseventy-five feet by ^evcn, containing a hundi-L-dand thirty-two pews on the lower floor, and fifty in thegallery, in which twelve hundred and seventy personsmay be comfortably seated. Tiie basement story con-tains, besides the several committee-rooms, a commodi-ous chapel, sixty-eight feet long by forty-eight feet wide,and fifteen feet high, which accommodates six hundredpersons with seats. The Rev. Edward N. Kirk, , has been the pastorof this religious society since its organization, June1, 1842. On account of tlie quit-t situation and eligible accom-modations of this church, it was selected as the placefor the meetings of the National Congregational Coimcil, 154 I UOSTON AND VI(;:iXTTV, 155 which assemble! J„ne 14, 1865, and its ses-sion ten .lays. The assembly was composed of five hun-dred and nineteen clerical and lay delegates, representing. the Congregational Churches of the nation, more thanthree thousand in nu».iber, scattered from the Atlantic to ihe Pacilic coasts. lis convocation is regarded as one 156 BOSTON AM) \IC1M1V. of the most importaut epochs in tlie history of Congre-gationalisai which has occurred since the landiug of thePilgrim Fathers ou Plymouth Rock, which the couvoca-tioa visited duriug their session.
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